M 6.3 in Japan on 08 Jan 2019 12:39 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1167481
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.5926 , 131.0371
Event Date: 08 Jan 2019 12:39 UTC
08 Jan 2019 21:39 Local
Exposed Population: About 11000 people in MMI
290000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Jan 2019 13:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us2000j1d4 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.57      
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Japan - Earthquake (ECHO 09 Jan 2019)Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:58

  • An earthquake of magnitude 6.3, at a depth of 35 km, occurred on Tanega-shima Island (Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan) on 8 January at 12:39 UTC. The epicentre was located approximately 10 km north-east of Nakatane Town and 15 km south-east of Nishinoomote Town.
  • USGS PAGER estimates that up to 1 000 people were exposed to strong shaking.
  • There are no reports of casualties or damage.
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),